Firmware Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firmware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 471 573
Rank change year-on-year +160 +102 -144
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 303 193 300
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 7.13% 3.20% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 255 138 154
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,258
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,252 6,025 13,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.58% 14.85% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,354 4,459 7,695
10th Percentile £31,325 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -2.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Firmware
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firmware trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firmware
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firmware.

Firmware salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firmware
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firmware over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Firmware salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.66%) Apache
2 2 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Simulink
2 5 (1.65%) OrCAD
2 5 (1.65%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (1.32%) Windchill
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.27%) Azure
2 13 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (3.96%) AWS
4 8 (2.64%) GitHub
5 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.65%) AWS IoT
7 4 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.66%) Akamai
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.66%) IaaS
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.33%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.33%) PaaS
10 1 (0.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (21.12%) Wireless
2 31 (10.23%) Ethernet
3 16 (5.28%) RS-232
4 14 (4.62%) TCP/IP
5 13 (4.29%) MQTT
6 12 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (3.63%) Software-Defined Radio
8 10 (3.30%) Bluetooth
8 10 (3.30%) LTE
9 8 (2.64%) HTTP
9 8 (2.64%) RS-485
10 7 (2.31%) ZigBee
11 5 (1.65%) 5G
11 5 (1.65%) 5G NR
11 5 (1.65%) 802.11
11 5 (1.65%) LoRaWAN
12 4 (1.32%) LAN
12 4 (1.32%) Profibus
12 4 (1.32%) WAN
13 3 (0.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) Power BI
2 1 (0.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.26%) Git
2 18 (5.94%) JIRA
3 10 (3.30%) Subversion
4 8 (2.64%) LabVIEW
5 7 (2.31%) Rational Team Concert
6 5 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.32%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.99%) GDB
8 3 (0.99%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.99%) Selenium
8 3 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.66%) GitLab
9 2 (0.66%) Postman
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) CMake
10 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.33%) GCC
10 1 (0.33%) Phabricator
General
1 119 (39.27%) Electronics
2 110 (36.30%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (10.89%) Manufacturing
5 28 (9.24%) Marketing
6 23 (7.59%) Automotive
7 21 (6.93%) Finance
8 18 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (5.61%) Public Sector
10 16 (5.28%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.63%) Military
12 9 (2.97%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.97%) Police
13 7 (2.31%) Aviation
14 5 (1.65%) Local Government
15 4 (1.32%) French Language
16 3 (0.99%) Legal
17 2 (0.66%) Agriculture
17 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (36.96%) Embedded Engineer
2 69 (22.77%) Software Engineer
3 57 (18.81%) Senior
4 50 (16.50%) Firmware Engineer
5 44 (14.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 32 (10.56%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 26 (8.58%) Graduate
8 23 (7.59%) Junior
8 23 (7.59%) Junior Embedded Engineer
9 20 (6.60%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 20 (6.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (6.27%) Senior Firmware Engineer
11 18 (5.94%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 18 (5.94%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (5.61%) Hardware Engineer
13 15 (4.95%) Developer
13 15 (4.95%) Electronics Engineer
14 13 (4.29%) Analyst
15 12 (3.96%) Design Engineer
16 11 (3.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.29%) Flask
2 9 (2.97%) Yocto
3 8 (2.64%) Django
4 7 (2.31%) CSS
4 7 (2.31%) HTML
4 7 (2.31%) React
5 6 (1.98%) .NET
6 5 (1.65%) 802.1X
6 5 (1.65%) Qt
7 4 (1.32%) Flash
8 2 (0.66%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (0.66%) wxWidgets
8 2 (0.66%) XML
9 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.33%) OpenCL
9 1 (0.33%) OpenGL
9 1 (0.33%) POSIX
9 1 (0.33%) Vulkan
9 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.58%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (8.25%) FPGA
3 21 (6.93%) IoT
4 19 (6.27%) Mobile App
5 17 (5.61%) Data Centre
5 17 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (5.28%) Algorithms
7 13 (4.29%) Analogue Electronics
8 12 (3.96%) PCIe
9 10 (3.30%) VHDL
10 8 (2.64%) Device Driver
11 7 (2.31%) Arduino
11 7 (2.31%) Raspberry Pi
12 5 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.65%) Smart Home
12 5 (1.65%) Verilog
13 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.99%) CPLD
14 3 (0.99%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.83%) Linux
2 24 (7.92%) Windows
3 14 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.29%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (2.97%) Unix
5 9 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.64%) AIX
6 8 (2.64%) Solaris
6 8 (2.64%) Windows NT
7 5 (1.65%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.65%) VxWorks
8 4 (1.32%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (45.54%) Software Engineering
2 63 (20.79%) Computer Science
3 44 (14.52%) Physics
4 42 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (12.54%) Mathematics
6 37 (12.21%) Mentoring
7 32 (10.56%) SDLC
8 29 (9.57%) Software Testing
9 23 (7.59%) Agile
10 22 (7.26%) Project Management
11 21 (6.93%) Programme Management
12 20 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (6.27%) FPGA Design
14 18 (5.94%) DevOps
14 18 (5.94%) Digital Signal Processing
14 18 (5.94%) Signal Processing
15 17 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (5.61%) Machine Learning
15 17 (5.61%) UML
16 16 (5.28%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 156 (51.49%) C
2 66 (21.78%) Embedded C
3 60 (19.80%) C++
4 38 (12.54%) Python
5 15 (4.95%) C#
6 12 (3.96%) MATLAB
6 12 (3.96%) SQL
7 8 (2.64%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.65%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.66%) Bash
11 2 (0.66%) Korn
11 2 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.33%) Java
12 1 (0.33%) Lua
12 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 111 (36.63%) Degree
2 58 (19.14%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (5.61%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.32%) HND
8 3 (0.99%) CCNA
8 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) ISEB
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.66%) MCSE
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) MCP
10 1 (0.33%) MCSA
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.95%) QA
2 9 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (2.97%) MISRA
3 5 (1.65%) JTAG
4 4 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) ISO 13485
5 3 (0.99%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.33%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 120 (39.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) Docker
7 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (4.29%) Ansible
2 10 (3.30%) SCCM
3 8 (2.64%) Sysprep
3 8 (2.64%) WSUS
4 2 (0.66%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Podman
5 1 (0.33%) SCOM
5 1 (0.33%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (5.28%) SAP
2 15 (4.95%) VMware
3 10 (3.30%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.97%) Intel
4 9 (2.97%) Oracle
4 9 (2.97%) Xilinx
5 8 (2.64%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.31%) NVIDIA
7 5 (1.65%) EMC
7 5 (1.65%) Google
7 5 (1.65%) IBM
8 4 (1.32%) Mentor Graphics
8 4 (1.32%) QNX
8 4 (1.32%) Siemens
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco
9 2 (0.66%) Facebook
9 2 (0.66%) Meraki
9 2 (0.66%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.33%) Citrix
10 1 (0.33%) HP